Ambient, Dub Techno and Dark Ambient producer and live performer Martin Stürtzer (Phelios) has been beta-testing the Hover MIDI and performed live with it at the Phobos festival on October 25th 2024. You can see how he used it to precisely control slowly evolving sounds in the tracks Stasis Device and Opalescent Void. He remarked this about Hover MIDI: “The Hover is really good; it has a display and a button, so that you can actually play it. Other ‘D-Beam’ controllers I tried were hard to control.“
We talked to Nick Batt of Sonic State about the features at the Machina Bristronica ’24 festival on the 12th October 2024, at Document in Bristol, UK. See the video on YouTube for a full run down of the features of Exchange and how it can be used to help with your patching work flow, from presetting common patch setups to live instant patch changes.
We will be back this year at the Machina Bristronica festival on the 12-13th October 2024, at Document in Bristol, UK. It’s running two days this year with 130 makers, talks, interviews, DIY performances and live music. We will be there demoing our products on both days so if you can make it come by the makers area to say hi, it will be great to see you. Doors Open 11:00am – 18:00pm Saturday, 11:30am – 18:00pm Sunday.
The Exchange and Expander patching modules are now in pre-production testing. Exchange is an 8-input 8-output programmable patching module, where multiple Exchange modules can be chained together through rear chain connections to handle more complex patches. The chain connections can also be accessed through front panel jacks using the Exchange Expander module. See the Exchange and Expander pages for more details.
Loki has been used in the production of ‘Timeless Horizon’, the latest release from Solaris. Here Loki is used in a Eurorack setup to create the low pulse and the other two sequenced parts in this cinematic dark ambient performative piece.
We have been fortunate to have Ambient / Electronic / Dub Techno artist Martin Stürtzer help us beta-test the Hover MIDI. As part of this, he used the Hover in his latest live online concert, where he used it to control the filter cutoff frequency of his Sequential OB-6 synthesizer during the performance. Click on the video to the left to see the part of the concert where Martin plays the Hover.
We talked to Nick Batt of Sonic State about the current line up of products at the Machina Bristronica festival on the 30th September 2023, at Document in Bristol, UK. See the video on YouTube for an overview of their features and how they can be used in your music production set up. We also debuted at Machina Bristronica ’23 a new module in the works: Exchange. More details to follow soon about the features of the Hover range and the Exchange module.
We will be exhibiting at the Machina Bristronica festival on the 30th September 2023, at Document in Bristol, UK. Come and see a preview of upcoming Archaea products in the modular stalls alongside 100+ other makers and manufacturers. Plus live performances, DIY workshops, talks and much more. Doors Open 11:30am – 18:00pm.
The Hover range of synthesizer beam controllers are now in pre-production testing. They output signals from hand movements measured by a beam of infrared light and are available in CV/gate and MIDI versions. Hover features a modifier button that can be used to freeze the output in various ways, including allowing Hover to be used like a standard fader or knob but with the benefit of the ease and expression of hand movements used as a controller. They will both be available as standalone desktop units, and additionally, the CV/gate version will also available as a Eurorack module. See the Hover, Hover Euro and Hover MIDI pages for more details.
Ambient artist Isostatic presents a tutorial where he puts together a few basic elements with the Loki synthesizer to give you an idea of how it can be used for ambient music production.
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